It lives! What a great feeling. I remember the first time my 64 turned over and kept running. It had been sitting for at least three years. Probably more given the flat and rotten tires.

I'm quite happy for you. I'm also amazed that your e-brake worked. Mine was rotten clean through...along with the brake lines themselves. Maybe this car was sitting longer than I thought.

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Chuck and the Flying Valiant

Yeah... tell me about it, I think pay someone else to have that fun for me. There were pounds of dirt down in the lower quarters that caused them to rust....wtf? Guess the PO used it as a truck to do some gardening.

We'll have to make the strip for sure Lou, I've been up there and watched a few times but never been down the track.

Luckily this car spent about 8 of the 10 years it sat on a paved lot and a local Ford dealership, after that it was moved to gravel lot, I used to drive by and "look at that crazy Valiant" every week in my Coronet after leaving the local cruise in.

Not having any grass growing up underneath and getting the bottom side wet helps a lot, my floor pans are pretty much perfect other than surface rust on the inside due to leaky wiper pivot seals and back window. It also didn't have factory undercoating thank goodness; I've had 20+ mopars and the only ones that had solid floors were the ones that didn't have undercoating.